Sentence examples for pit closing from inspiring English sources

But Point of Ayr on the north Wales coast was the region's last pit, closing in 1996.

The Great Northern Coalfield drew breath until 1993, when the last pit closed in County Durham.

"A lot of lives have been saved since the pit closed," said Gillespie.

Once the world's biggest mining village, thousands were thrown out of work when the local pit closed in 1986.

Now 63, he has been out of work since the pit closed in 1993 and acts as a voluntary adviser to ex-miners with health problems.

Former miners in Easington, Co Durham, will mark the 20 years since their pit closed with a party on the day of her funeral.

It was put most memorably by the people of Linton colliery in Northumberland after their pit closed and the whole village was mistakenly removed from local maps, to their great delight.

A bear of a man whose extended family includes seven great-grandchildren, Gillespie was the first to admit that, for two years after the pit closed, he "seized up.

When the pit closed, only a plaque in the village centre marked the rich industrial heritage.

Highly activated components in the IFMIF facility are found in the Test Cell, a pit closed by stepped shielding plugs.

The meeting was told the National Coal Board's pit closure programme had "gone better this year than planned: there had been one pit closed every three weeks" and the workforce had shrunk by 10%.